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Man Drops Camera to the Bottom of Black Magic Island and Discovers New Creatures

PetaPixel·@MattGrowcoot·2 months ago
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A YouTuber is continuing his quest to discover previously unknown species that live on the ocean floor by dropping cameras deep in the Indo-Pacific region. He recently visited Indonesia’s Nusa Penida, also known as Black Magic Island. Like many other divers, Barny Dillarstone has swum in the pristine reefs around the island before but very few have explored the deep waters of Nusa Penida — an island with a history of sorcery. Dillarstone lowered an Insta360 Ace Pro 2 roughly 600 feet (170 meters) where strong currents prevent sessile life from getting a foothold. “Despite this,” Dillarstone adds. “Predators still thrive.” The first animal he came across was a spurdog shark, or dogfish, which immediately went for the bait attached to the camera rig, which also includes a light. Remarkably, the dogfish, later identified as a western highfin spurdog, is believed to be the first-ever individual filmed alive in the wild. Later on, many other individuals arrived and were caught on camera.…

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